Reading Harry Potter Again (eBook, PDF)

New Critical Essays
Redaktion: Anatol, Giselle Liza

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays extends the discussion of the Harry Potter books by covering the entire series in one new and comprehensive volume. As was argued in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), interpreting the underlying messages and themes of the Harry Potter series is vital for understanding the ways in which we perceive and interact with each other in contemporary society. The novels and corresponding film adaptations have broken records with their astonishing sales and widespread acclaim. They have also generated a plethora of writing-by critics, academics, and fans. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books could easily be called this generation's most formative narratives, and thus certainly warrant critical attention. This new volume of essays covers the entire seven-book sequence. Contributors consider myriad themes from a variety of perspectives. Areas addressed include religion, morality, race, magic, and other themes popular in discussing the books. With this book in hand, fans of the series-indeed anyone interested in the Harry Potter phenomenon-will better appreciate and understand Rowling's work and the impact of her stories on our culture and on our times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313361982
• Artikelnr.: 43075512

Autorenporträt

Giselle Liza Anatol is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is the editor of Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), and has published several journal articles, book chapters, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Giselle Liza Anatol 1. Harry the Teenager:
Muggle Themes in a Magical Adolescence Lisa Damour I. Religion and Morality
2. The Lightning Bolt Scar as a Lightning Rod: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
Series and the Rhetoric of the Extreme Right Rebecca L. Stephens 3. The
Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings Peggy Lin Duthie
4. Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter
Patricia Donaher and James M. Okapal 5. Harry Potter and Narratives of
Destiny Lisa Hopkins 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lies in Harry
Potter Chantel M. Lavoie II. The Politics of Harry Potter: Issues of
Gender, Race, and Class 7. Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest
for the Domestic Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith 8. The Replication
of Victorian Racial Ideology in Harry Potter Giselle Liza Anatol 9. A
Marxist Inquiry into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series Shama Rangwala 10.
Secret Domination or Civic Duty: The Source and Purpose of Magical Power in
Harry Potter Margaret J. Oakes III. The Socio-Cultural Impact of the Harry
Potter Series 11. Hermione and the House-Elves Revisited: J.K. Rowling,
Antislavery Campaigning, and the Politics of Potter Brycchan Carey 12.
(Dis)Order and the Phoenix: Love and Political Resistance in Harry Potter
Tracy L. Bealer 13. Militant Literacy: Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter,
Dolores Umbridge, and the (Mis)use of Text Leslee Friedman 14. Doubling,
Transfiguration, and Haunting: The Art of Adapting Harry Potter for Film
Michael K. Johnson Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and
Contributors